- Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:28 pm
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A good guide there Ali, and my installation of a new WD 320GB HDD was going well, even had only one sticky HDD screw holding the old drive in. Trouble however brewed when I switched the PS3 back on after installing the drive. Instead of getting the message asking if I wanted to format the new HDD, I got the following instead.
The system software cannot be run correctly. Please press the PS button to try the system. If the system cannot be restarted, the system partition hard disc must be reformatted and you must reinstall the system software.
Insert storage media that contains the update data of version 3.50 or later, and then press the START and SELECT buttons at the same time.
After a bit of searching I found a solution that worked for me. Using a small USB pen drive formatted to FAT32 I downloaded the latest update from Sony's PS3 website (at the time of writing 3.50). I then created a folder on the pen drive called PS3, then in that folder created another called UPDATE. It was in this folder that I placed the PS3 update file. Apparently the folder names need to be in capitals.
After plugging the pen drive into the USB port on the front of the PS3, I pressed the START and SELECT buttons as instructed. After a short wait the PS3 then asked if I wanted to format the HDD. I then followed the rest of Ali's guide.
Hopefully this will help any peeps on here who come across the same problem!
Like Ali I also used a WD external HDD to transfer my backed up data.
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